Improvement in cider-mills



PATENT QFFIGE.

MARCUS P. SCH-ENOK, OF FULTON, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN CIDER-MILLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 138,533, dated May 6,1873; application filed October 17, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARCUS P. ScHENoK, of Fulton, in the county ofOswego and State of New York, have invented an Improved Cider-Mill, ofwhich the following is a specification:

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

Description of the Drawing.

Figure 1 is a vertical transverse section of a cider-mill illustratingmy invention. Fig. 2 is a plan of the same, partly in section.

General Description.

A A represent parts of the frame of the mill. B is the hopper. O O are apair of feedrollers, each formed with one, two, or more rows of teeth, 0c. D is the grinding-cylinder, provided with oblique or slightly hookingteeth, (1 d, which may be arranged in spiral rows around its periphery.E is the concave hinged above at e, and having its lower end pressedtoward the cylinder D by a spring, F. G is a sliding floor or falsebottom armed at its edge with a grinding-plate, g, and adjusted byset-screws H H H so as to hold it firmly in position with the edge ofthe plate 9 in proper proximity to the periphery or teeth of thecylinder D, so as to permit the passage of only thoroughly groundpumice. The space I, above the adjustable floor G, forms a receptacle tocatch and retain stones and other foreign bodies, which, being pressedby the cylinder into the body of pumice collected under the edge of theconcave E, are readily removed by the hand of the operator. The rollersO O and cylinder D are rotated in. the directions indicated by thearrows, and at proper relative speeds, by means of gearing J K L L, Jbeing a pinion on the shaft of rapidly-revolving cylinder D, and K awheel gearing with said pinion, so as to transmit a much less rapidrotation to the rollers O 0, said wheel K being keyed on the shaft ofone of said rollers, and their shafts being geared together by thewheels L L. The dotted lines in Fig. 1 show the arrangement andconnection of the gearing.

Claims.

The following is claimed as new:

1. The feed-rollers G C, in combination with the grinding-cylinder D,hinged concave E, and separately-adj ustable floor G, all arranged tooperate in manner substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. The stone-catching box I, combined with the grindingcylinder D, asand for the purpose set forth.

3. The combination of gearing .l K L L with the cylinder D andfeed-rollers O C, as set forth.

M. P. SGHENGK.

Witnesses:

Oomvros KNIGHT, WALTER ALLEN.

